As the 2006 Sundance Film Festival winds down this weekend, so does indieWIRE's 10th annual extensive Park City coverage, including the tremendous series of interviews with Sundance competition directors. indieWIRE was frequently lumped in with the bloggers (which we don't mind at all), but we were up to other things as well behind the scenes.

At a party we held at the VW Lounge (run, coincidentily, but our buddies at Crispin) with our dear friends at the San Francisco Film Society, we announced a bit more about our new co-venture to cover the San Francisco independent media scene in greater depth with a new brand, SF360 (more here and here.) The always-charming folk at SFist were the first to write about the plans and some of the technology.

More quietly the next morning, we gathered with our collabortors from Emerging Pictures and the California Film Institute to work on our expanded plans for the Undiscovered Gems film festival for this year, based upon indieWIRE's annual list of the best undistributed films.

We also got a chance to see many of our friends and collaborators that we wish we could hang out with more frequently, and met a bunch of great new folks (including our intrepid Utah interns and our condo-mates from Paste Magazine, of whom we're great fans.) Hats (probably left-over schwag) off to Eugene, Brian, James, Jonny, Amy & Meg and the rest of the indieWIRE crew for another amazing year of covering Park City!